Only there's nothing to do in it--why, Dolly, it's no secret!--and a salary of eight thousand.

You try asking him whether his post is of use, he'll prove to you that it's most necessary.

And he's a truthful man too, but there's no refusing to believe in the utility of eight thousand roubles.

" "Yes, he asked me to give a message to Darya Alexandrovna about the post," said Sergey Ivanovitch reluctantly, feeling the prince's remark to be ill-timed.